Emerging from the suggestion that initial teacher education in Ireland shift to a version of clinical school model, I ask how can we think about in-school experience student teachers terms those capabilities which promote subjectivity? In this paper share philosophical perspective on educational value during education. suggest university’s presence ought be carefully considered. A closer relati...

E. Paige Benson is an e-learning consultant ([email protected]) who helps health-care organizations define, create, implement, and evaluate complex learning solutions and a nurse educator at Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif. Online learning offers a means of self-directed education with improved learning through interac-tivity. 10-16 Learners retain 10% of what they read, 30% ...

BACKGROUND Health professions education is characterised by work-based learning and relies on effective verbal feedback. However the literature reports problems in feedback practice, including lack of both learner engagement and explicit strategies for improving performance. It is not clear what constitutes high quality, learner-centred feedback or how educators can promote it. We hoped to enha...

BACKGROUND Health professionals with the level of competency necessary to provide high-quality patient education are central to meeting patients' needs. However, research on how competencies in patient education should be developed and health professionals trained in them, is lacking. The aim of this study was to investigate the characteristics of an expert educator according to health professi...

Preconceptions of rural lifestyle and culture can color the perspective of future health care providers. To encourage Advanced Practice Nurse (ANP) students to think beyond the mythology about a rural place different than where they practice, two nurse educators and universities teamed up to develop a unique curriculum in which students immersed themselves in a new rural experience. In this inn...

Abstract Objectives Information on nurse educator education is scarce. The present study thus aims to provide an overview of the requirements for and standards in six European countries order enable further reflection promote discourse topic. Methods: A descriptive international cross-sectional comparative was conducted across countries. Data were collected via online questionnaire completed by...

background and objectives: in this paper, a real life nurse scheduling model is described based on the conditions in iranian hospitals such as monthly shift rotation, consecutive morning and evening shifts and consecutive evening and night shift.   methods: the developed model considers both hospital constraints and nurses’ preferences. hospital constraints include assigning adequate qualified ...